Pablo Picasso

Two L.A. Musicals Poke Fun at Religious Groups While Celebrating Them at the Same Time

Reviews of When You're in Love, the Whole World Is Jewish and Paradise: A Divine Bluegrass Musical Comedy

It's the Year of the Snake, and We're All Gonna Get Radiation (see Monday), So We Might As Well Party

Aaron Axelrod's Music and Painting Performances Light Up Downtown's Vortex Dome

You Can't Take It With You

Does someone live here?

The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 Thus Far

*Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time Only ten days into January we jokingly picked the year's top rap albums of 2012. But it turns out that 2012 has in fact shaped up as a pretty amazing year for hip-hop full-lengths -- arguab ... More >>

Art Project Los Angeles

History Hoarder

Riding Dirty With Rothkos: Jay-Z And Kayne West's Luxury Referenced Decoded

​Rapping about the finer things is a big part of what hip-hop's about these days. But what happens when you have no idea what the hell's being boasted about? That's the case on Watch the Throne, Jay-Z and Kanye West's self-described "luxury rap" album. It's clear that they're bragging about ... More >>

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog Food Fight: Echo Park Street Vendor vs. The Stand

There is so much fuss over new baconized products (bazookas, salt, alphabets) that we sometimes forget that street vendors were outfitting hot dogs with bacon long before anyone knew how to tweet or Instagram. The vendors wheel out their carts like clockwork, punching in just as you're punching out ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Jeffrey Vallance on Blinky, the Friendly Hen

Courtesy Marc Foxx William Daniels' "Untitled" oil painting, on view at Marc Foxx Gallery through November 12​ My agenda includes a couple risks -- eight hours of United Nations-style debating and a visit to a temporary hotel room. Then there are the sure bets -- a lecture by an inimitably cle ... More >>

Picasso Meets Spielberg

For Sale: Antique Desk Suitable for Lady With Thick Legs and Large Drawers

A Weekend With Pablo Picasso

Stage Raw: LAWEES on Monday

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESLAWEES ON MONDAY The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards take place on Monday night. Doors open at ... More >>

Creep Show, Peep Show

Heavy Metal Parking Lot, photography at Hotel de Ville Eyewear and the Paul Smith anniversary party, plus saying goodbye to some of our fave haunts

Hollywood Sleaze Palaces Closing Down, Part XIV: The Mau-Maus at Paul Picasso's Peep/Art Show

Lina LecaroThe Maus Maus' Rick Wilder still lives up to his name.​ Hollywood's upscale clubsterfuck evolution continues to claim more casualties. Buzz on the streets (and blogs) is that gay stalwart The Spotlight on Cahuenga is in serious danger of closing end of this year. Crane's Hollywood T ... More >>

MAYBE BABY

Julian Serrano's Paella Tips His Easy (Enough) Chicken Seafood Paella Recipe

Flickr user liuiaOnce you master the basics, weekend recipe tweaking is easy​Turning on the oven this time of year can feel so very wrong, and how many burgers can you possibly consume in one month (granted, a lot)? Enter paella. But does anyone actually ever make the Spanish rice and seafood- ... More >>

Gorky's Debt

The genealogy of an action pioneer

Leiris/Picasso

Stage Raw: A Memory of What Might Have Been

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW GO  A MEMORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ​ Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's Underground George Bernard Shaw wrote that "men and women are made by their own fancies in the image ... More >>

BULB MOVES

John Millei at Ace ... and Ace

Fraudster Who Sold Fake Picassos On TV Sentenced

Edvard Munch'The Scream.'​A woman who sold fake Picasso, Dali and Chagall artwork as the real thing on a television auction show was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles announced Tuesday. Authorities say La Canada resident Kristine Eubanks, 52, ... More >>

Portraiture

Mark Grotjahn and J.B. Blunk at Blum & Poe

Bootleg of Radiohead's Haiti Benefit at the Fonda Surfaces

Radiohead Haiti Benefit Free MP3 Bootleg

Halloween Storytelling

All That Was, Is at the Happy Lion

About Faces

Max Maven Thinking in Person

SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?

Bloggers are every journalist's favorite whipping boy. If a shitty band gets too popular, blame the bloggers. If the standards of professional journalism have eroded too much, blame the bloggers. If by 2010, Vampire Weekend has inspired legions of college freshmen to dress as ironic yachters, bla ... More >>

IL BIDONE

Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

Also Jim Morrison's Swimming to the Moon and this week's pick, Innocent When You Dream.

Exiles On Main Street

Portraits of downtown's endangered artists. Case study: The Canadian Building

Theater Reviews

Including Cuts, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Miss Julie and more

Best Armchair Travel for the Vacation Impaired

Little Rock cartoon

I just drew this on my laptop with my index finger on a tiny tracking pad that is 3 inches by 2 inches.  I thought of it today while walking back from a museum in Little Rock, my brain both reflecting on the obvious genius of a Picasso exhibit that I'd just seen and anticipating the political p ... More >>

First Impressions

Tales from the Pissarro world

Psychedoolde

I’m Tomine! I’m Beyer! I’m Kaz!

Three new comics collections

Sexy Beasts

Larry Clark, John Waters and Bruce Hainley on their big, big . . . books

Jon Robin Baitz's play about artists and eclipse

Jon Robin Baitz's play about artists and eclipse

A Day for Peace

The Back Story

Judith Lewis

Pussy Galore

The year of the vagina

Art Galleries

Fuck Different

The Greatest Art Show on Earth

(Be careful not to splash marinara sauce on the paintings.)